Education Quotes - Page 120

I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

We are the world, we are the children.

School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.

They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across the fundamental rules of calculation without too much confusion. The same teacher trying to teach new math is apt to get across nothing at all.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help average teachers approximate the performance of good teachers.